By Jacob Serebrin THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL- A student newspaper at McGill University has dropped “McGill” from its name and is calling on the university to stop using the name because the school’s founder enslaved people. Madison Edward-Wright, a managing editor at The Tribune, said the paper’s editorial board made the decision because it didn’t want to continue honouring someone who enslaved Black and Indigenous people. “We don’t feel that the legacy of James McGill is something that we can continue to have appear on our paper, on our masthead,” she said in an interview Friday. “It’s not something that we think aligns with our values as journalists and as an institution that works to voice the concerns of students.” Removing “McGill” from the paper’s name will also help create

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